I first wrote this post for the SAS blog Conversations and Connections. SAS has been awesome enough to let me repost it here.

Editor’s note: In this week’s installment, Stacey eats a peach and comes perilously close to crossing the self-promotional boundary.

Week of July 19, 2010

(Monday, 7/19) Day 25:

Not too much work today, as I’m waiting on more info from the SAMS team. I did write a post about the internal student resource, Student Connect, for the internal blog. I also made 2 more Twitter lists for the SASSoftware account and finished updating the directory with information I already had.

(Tuesday, 7/20) Day 26:

Today, I went to a meeting to talk about Facebook page optimization. I learned a lot of stuff about Facebook I’d never even thought about. Like the place where Facebook looks for keywords on a page is in the “about” box just under the picture.

(Wednesday, 7/21) Day 27:

Just had a peach from the break room. It was delicious. This place is great.

(Thursday, 7/22) Day 28:

Had a class called Money Talk with Lead Financial Coach of Lukas Coaching, Derek Sisterhen. It was awesome. I learned so much that I decided to share it on my new blog, imaginatively titled Stacey Alexander. Still working on the set-up, so go easy on me.

(Friday, 7/23) Day 29:

I had a working session with Christine today, where we talked about putting the curriculum and the directory up on the portal. Things will be going up pretty quickly now. I’m super excited about this!

Weekly Recap:

Well this week, I’ve gotten a lot of work. I’ll be pretty busy next week. The biggest highlight for sure is the information going up on the portal. This is the stuff I’ve been researching and begging other people to help me get. This is what I’ve been working on all summer. And it’s finally going up! I’m going to have something to show for myself. Of course, there’s still a lot of work to do there.

In other news, Dave and I had a discussion about how I was going to find a job when my gig here is up next month. The information he laid out for me was just short of overwhelming. This is a competitive field. You got to keep up with the Joneses (or in this case, the David B Thomases). Ok, ok. So I’m definitely not on the same playing field as Dave, but I’ve got a lot of work to do to build up my branding and portfolio to compete with the people who are on my level. Wish me luck!

photo by Rob Lee